Most electronic products that you purchase today are disposable - the cost to maintain or fix them is prohibitive so they are discarded and typically a newer and better device is purchased. Unfortunately, the same is not true for power system equipment. Purchasing new switchgear, transformers or generators just because they are "old" is never justifiable.

Many large hospitals and healthcare facilities were constructed in the 1960's and 1970's. The construction of these facilities has decreased dramatically over the years so most of the power system equipment is well beyond its expected (20 year) life. In most cases, new "wings" are added to the existing infrastructure. Facility personnel now have to deal with 20-40 year old equipment supplying power to ever-increasing sensitive loads. The requirement for reliability of the power system "artery" is at an all-time high but has your equipment been maintained well enough to survive? How do you know what to do to improve the overall reliability given a fixed budget?

Cutler Hammer offers world class predictive and preventative measures to ensure that you are finding the "weak links" in your infrastructure before they surprise you!

IEEE reliability analysis helps benchmark the maximum reliability that you can expect to achieve with your system if it was brand new - is it time for an upgrade? Let C-H help you decide with a Power System "Health Check".

How are other healthcare facilities dealing with their "aging population" (of power system equipment)? Paying too much to obtain parts for obsolete medium voltage circuit breakers? Save money by retiring those old air-break designs and replace with a vacuum retrofit that rolls into the same space. Not ready to replace your low voltage power circuit breakers but you know you should? Make them "better than new" with Class 1 reconditioning program from Cutler Hammer.